In the euphotic zone of the ocean, where air-sea gas exchange occurs and light is abundant, ocean tracers such as dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity advect, di ...

The twilight zone is a section of water extending from the euphotic zone down to 1000m. A new study demonstrates that this region acts like a gate and that little makes it to the seafloor. …carbon ...

April 6 (UPI) --New research suggests the ocean's "biological carbon pump" is more efficient at absorbing carbon than scientists previously estimated. In spring, as the ocean surface in the Northern ...

Every spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the ocean surface erupts in a massive bloom of phytoplankton. Like plants, these single-celled floating organisms use photosynthesis to turn light into energy, ...